Presenter: Aly Tapp
Time: 10:30 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium
Contact:
Description of Presentation
We know that reading is good for everyone, but we often prescribe exactly what reading must be -- on paper, in a book. Many students resist. Make reading time relevant! Connect your students to the world of blogs via RSS feeds. They pick the content and then tune in to read the latest. Sports, recreation, politics, humor, teenage life -- give them something they WANT to read, and then watch that wonderful interaction between human and text.
What is RSS?
Considerations:
Let them search?
Gather their interests and search for them?
Either way -- Google -- More -- Even More -- Blog Search
Assessment:
Traditional
Blogging in response
Blogging of session:
RSS analogy to shopping for computers:Rather than go to see the latest and greatest, the latest and greatest comes to you at home
Steps for RSS:
Step 1: Get a reader like Google Reader (others include netvibes, bloglines, pageflakes, and more)
Step 2: Sign up for an account with Google
Step 3: Go to "more" at the top of Google page and go to "reader"
Step 4: Subscribe to blogs, anything with RSS feeds
Shared her page with subscribing blogs on the left, and one example Teach 42 (Steve Dembo from the DEN-Discovery Educator Network)
For reading, she set up a Google Form for the students to add what they were interested in as topics
Used Google Blog search (go to even more at the top of Google) to find related blogs, requires teacher review for appropriate posts
May want to do a parent letter notifying them of the use of blogs
As coach, Aly goes in once a cycle with the CFF teachers to work with students on SSR via RSS
Students are reading what they are interested in, actual SSR
She provided the titles for the students via a protected wiki, rather than them searching for their interest on their own
Student reflection, teachers can still do traditional journaling, journal in Moodle, or use student blogs (21classes.com)
Time: 10:30 - 11:15
Room: Auditorium
Contact:
Description of Presentation
We know that reading is good for everyone, but we often prescribe exactly what reading must be -- on paper, in a book. Many students resist. Make reading time relevant! Connect your students to the world of blogs via RSS feeds. They pick the content and then tune in to read the latest. Sports, recreation, politics, humor, teenage life -- give them something they WANT to read, and then watch that wonderful interaction between human and text.
What is RSS?
Considerations:
Assessment:
Blogging of session: